Tyrannical on 30 April 2009
| ManusJustus said: I'll quickly disprove the notion that 'might makes right' which is what some of you are arguing. Right is not dependent on might, but those with might do have the option to do what is right or what is wrong. If we are in an argument and I say that the Earth is flat, just because I'm stronger than you doesnt make the Earth flat. |
I suppose I'll have to just as quickly return the favor.
"Might makes right" is a social construct, not a scientific one.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
